Re: Org mode API

["Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
>
>> As a counter-point: An example of a higher level of abstraction is the
>> org-mode API. But thinking back how long it took me to get that to
>> actually do what I needed, I doubt that that’s the model I want for most
>> packages. But I agree that without this, what I wrote would have been
>> more brittle. ...
>
> May you elaborate a bit on the problems with Org mode API?

I use it to gather all entries for a kanban table and it took me a long
time to understand the match and scope and to find what exactly I get
from org-map-entries,¹ how to get the filtering and scope right, and how
to post-process the elemets.²

And it’s not efficient, because org-map-entries actually gives me far
more than what I need — what I’d actually need is to get the nth org
element matching match and scope for which the passed function does not
return nil.

(the linked code is the result of a lot of tinkering)

Best wishes,
Arne

¹ https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/kanban.el/browse/kanban.el?rev=29a36f508ffc#L192

² https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/kanban.el/browse/kanban.el?rev=29a36f508ffc#L142
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